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ABSTRACT This study examines how foreign language teachers’ beliefs about the medium of instruction and translanguaging evolve over time by revisiting three in‐service teachers twelve years after their initial interviews. Using a qualitative longitudinal design, the study traces how translanguaging was initially framed as pedagogically deficient but ...
Danping Wang
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Prosodic cues for exhaustive interpretations: A production study on Georgian intonation
Skopeteas S, Féry C. Prosodic cues for exhaustive interpretations: A production study on Georgian intonation. In: Amiridze N, Reseck T, Topadze Gäumann M, eds. Advances in Kartvelian Morphology and Syntax. Bochum: Brockmeyer; 2014: 79-100.The expression
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ABSTRACT Studies on classroom interactions suggest that displaying affiliation through linguistic and multimodal resources could promote positive emotions like enjoyment, thereby enhancing engagement and enthusiasm in second/foreign language learning.
Karen C. K. Choi, Kevin W. H. Tai
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Phonetic and phonological influences in non-native intonation: an overview for language teachers. [PDF]
Just as poor pronunciation can make a foreign language learner very difficult to understand, poor prosodic and intonational skills can have an equally devastating\ud effect on communication and can make conversation frustrating and unpleasant for both ...
Mennen, Ineke
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More Than Words: The Multimodal Practice of Repetition in English as a Lingua Franca Interactions
ABSTRACT This study investigates the use of repetition as an interactional resource in video‐recorded English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) interactions, focusing on partial repeats produced in responses to wh‐questions. By adopting a multimodal conversation analytic approach, the analysis demonstrates that repetition in this context may either index the ...
Yujong Park
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The role of topic shift and conversation turn in the intonation of Italian wh-questions
The aim of this study is to analyse the intonation patterns of Italian wh-questions in relation to epistemic orientation, topic shift and turn organisation.
Patrizia Sorianello
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Measuring Interactional Competence in a Japanese University EFL Speaking Context
ABSTRACT The ability to interact is an integral aspect of speaking proficiency. Therefore, methods of assessing interaction need to be incorporated into second language (L2) speaking tests. The main purpose of this exploratory study is to attempt to quantify interactional competence (IC) in a Japanese university EFL (English as a foreign language ...
Paul Garside
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Las melodías de los enunciados interrogativos con marca sintáctica del alemán septentrional en habla espontánea [PDF]
Research on German intonation has been notably increasing since the metrical-autosegmental system was applied to the description of German intonation patterns and also to the intonation description of some German linguistic varieties. This system for the
José Torregrosa Azor
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Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
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ABSTRACT This study brings an interactional perspective to item reviewing (IR) as one of the critical language test construction stages by using conversation analysis. Drawing on video recordings of IR sessions in an English preparatory school at the tertiary level, it examines how EFL teachers problematize and revise syllabus‐based language test items
Hümeyra Can, Çiler Hatipoğlu
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